lead

what is the responsibility of a reader?

why do we jump too far?

What does it take to take the position of leading?

Nothing basically. It is an animalistic feature of living in tribes to be socially structured beings.

It comes with dominance assertion and less logic is involved than what is thought.

It is mostly superficial and the more in-depth the conversations go, the less it matters to the property of leadership. Philosophy is the ultimate pullback from leadership, which is embracing one's own self as an individual and figuring out a distinct explanation of what the experience of life is about.

It is the difference between the director and the movie critic we are talking about. 

Both very well know what a good movie is. But the director is less likely to make a perfect movie and the critic is less likely to make a movie but he may understand better than the director what the movie is about. {do they?}

You can direct a movie by taking a camera in your hand and shooting anything but would it be a good movie? 

That is the conundrum with leadership.

Living within the structure of society, language, and interpersonal relations, it is not the wisest idea to take the position of leadership unless the cost of what is imposed on others is compensated with the overall benefits. A leader changes the way others experience their life. The frame in which the mental model of the leader wants people to be shapes who they are when they are observed through the lens of the leader. 

Therefore, theoretically, for a leader, it matters that they have resolved a lot of their issues before stepping into the position. Otherwise, regardless of the overall goal of the group, the first operation is going to be to resolve the problems of the leader. This is especially costly when the person is not mature enough to understand the implications of control. A part of leadership is letting go, for the natural structure to form by itself, and then getting involved again. 

A painter needs to step back from the canvas for the paint to dry and for the eyes to witness the painting from a distance. A different perspective gives a type of information that is hardly collectible from another perspective.